Senior Medical Science Liaison (Northeast)
Rapport Therapeutics
Summary
A Sr. Medical Science Liaison at Rapport is more than a scientific expert; they are a connector, collaborator, and trusted partner who helps bridge the external medical community with internal teams. By fostering trusted scientific relationships, generating meaningful insights, and supporting evidence development, the MSL helps shape Medical Affairs strategy while contributing to a team culture where people support one another, learn together, and celebrate shared success. Reporting to the Director, Field Medical, the MSL will support compliant scientific exchange, insight generation, evidence-related activities, and field execution aligned with Medical Affairs strategy.
Job description
Scientific Exchange & External Engagement
- Build, maintain, and serve as a primary scientific contact for peer-to-peer relationships with scientific leaders, investigators, healthcare professionals, and academic centers within the assigned geography.
- Conduct compliant, balanced, and evidence-based scientific exchange regarding disease-state science, clinical data, treatment paradigms, safety considerations, and the evolving competitive landscape.
- Respond to unsolicited medical inquiries in accordance with company policies and applicable regulations, including inquiries related to clinical data, evidence interpretation, safety, and patient management considerations.
- Represent Medical Affairs at medical conferences, scientific congresses, regional society meetings, and advocacy or educational events as appropriate.
Insight Generation & Communication
- Gather, document, and synthesize field insights related to clinical practice trends, patient needs, barriers to care, emerging evidence, and competitive intelligence.
- Communicate insights to appropriate internal stakeholders to inform medical strategy, evidence generation, scientific communications, lifecycle planning, and field execution.
- Identify regional opportunities and challenges that may impact medical education, stakeholder engagement, evidence needs or launch readiness.
Education & Scientific Support
- Deliver high-quality scientific presentations to healthcare providers, formulary or decision-making stakeholders, and internal teams, as appropriate.
- Contribute to the development or review of scientific materials, including slide decks, FAQs, training resources, congress materials, advisory board content, and standard medical responses, when requested.
- Support internal medical training and field readiness activities by sharing scientific expertise, field insights, and external stakeholder perspectives.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Medical Affairs colleagues and cross-functional teams, including Medical Science, Clinical Trial Awareness, Regulatory, Safety, Market Access, Corporate Affairs, and Commercial, while maintaining strict compliance boundaries.
- Provide scientific input and field perspective to support launch planning, competitive preparedness, medical education, payer-related scientific needs, and patient journey initiatives.
- Escalate key scientific, safety, compliance, or reputational issues through appropriate internal channels in a timely manner.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in a relevant scientific or clinical discipline required; PharmD, PhD, MD, DO, NP, or equivalent preferred depending on therapeutic area and business needs.
- 5+ years of industry experience with at least 3 as an MSL with additional years in clinical, research, or related healthcare experience.
- Epilepsy and/or neurology therapeutic area expertise and established network.
- Strong understanding of clinical research, evidence generation, medical communications, and compliant scientific exchange.
- Demonstrated ability to build credible peer-to-peer relationships with external scientific and clinical stakeholders.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor communication to diverse scientific and healthcare audiences.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage a field territory, prioritize external engagements, and document insights in a timely manner.
- Collaborative mindset: humble, curious, generous with expertise, committed to helping teammates succeed.
- Ability to travel approximately 50% or more depending on geography, business needs, and congress activity.
- Preferred: Prior experience in field medical affairs, medical communications, clinical development, real-world evidence, or investigator-initiated study support.
- Preferred: Psychiatry therapeutic area expertise.
- Preferred: Experience supporting pre-launch, launch, or post-launch medical activities.
- Preferred: Experience working in emerging biotech environment.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Lifestyle spending account
- Commuting reimbursement
- Competitive salary
Company overview
Rapport Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing precision medicines for central nervous system (CNS) disorders. The company specializes in targeting receptor-associated proteins (RAPs) to create novel therapeutics with improved efficacy and safety profiles for neurological and psychiatric conditions. By leveraging its proprietary platform technology, Rapport aims to identify and develop small molecule drugs that modulate specific protein-protein interactions within neural circuits, offering more targeted approaches to treating complex brain disorders. The company's research pipeline includes potential treatments for conditions such as epilepsy, neuropathic pain, and other CNS-related diseases where current therapeutic options remain limited. Rapport Therapeutics represents an innovative approach in the neuroscience field, combining molecular biology expertise with drug discovery capabilities to address unmet medical needs in neurology and psychiatry.